Kit Thomas

Nice one today!

#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover

Sol 1693 Nov. 24, 2025: Left Navigation Camera

mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

Wednesday will be interesting as a cold air mass pushes into the Mid-South.
The maximum temperature for the day will be set at midnight, with the afternoon high not cresting higher. The morning low will also not be the minimum for the day, as the colder air fully arrives with mid 30s by 11:59pm.

The eruption after thousand of years of #HayliGubbi #volcano in #Ethiopia.
According to analyses, part of the eruptive column from the eruption may have reached an altitude between 18 and 20 km.
The #Copernicus #Sentinel5p image on Nov. 23 shows the big plume moving eastward.

These stations are reporting visibility reduced to <0.25mi, it just is oddly displaying it as a “-“ rather than a “<“

I've heard of fog thick as pea soup, but never fog so thick it reflects what's behind you!

Increases in average annual premiums in seven key states.

"Climate shock." New study shows that rising property insurance premiums caused by growing weather extremes are cascading into the real estate market. Homes in the ZIP codes most exposed to hurricanes and wildfires would sell for an average of $43,900 less than they would otherwise.

A JWST deep-field image, replete with bright, familiar spiral galaxies, dimmer, rounder galaxies, and very dim, red–orange galaxies that date to within the first billion years of the Universe's history. Bright, blue, spikey features are stars in our own galaxy.

This is part of our universe.

An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.

The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of October 2025. All latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies relative to 1951-1980.

Take a look at this... Remarkable "warmth" last month across both polar regions when visualizing temperature departures by latitude. The x-axis is quite stretched out here compared to my usual monthly update of this graphic.

GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 baseline (data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/).

How long is this dataset?
Fascinating way to view it though!! I notice a lot of daybreak waterspouts offshore of South Carolina

In ~40 minutes, I'll be chatting with @jakecarstens.bsky.social and @drkimwood.bsky.social about this year's hurricane season!

It's a bit like a forum, so we'll have some Q&A for any specific questions that don't get brought up.

discord.gg/9aS7WVJ8qH

YouTube video by ProKitman A Tea Party on a Lighthouse | Autocraft SMP

I've been playing Minecraft and making the occasional YouTube vid for a few years now and just published my latest episode! I built a version of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse in this episode and I'm quite proud of how it turned out!
If you like video game vids, I hope you like this one!

John Morales: As hurricane season nears end, U.S. forecasting concerns persist The diminished ability to study, monitor, forecast, warn for, and recover from more intense hurricanes and other hazards like flooding, heat waves and wildfires was—and continues to be—a source of une...

“The diminished ability to study, monitor, forecast, warn for, and recover from more intense hurricanes and other hazards like flooding, heat waves and wildfires was—and continues to be—a source of unease.” www.nbcmiami.com/weather/hurr...

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!

The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).

Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.

Video source: @_yagha_

Nights like this are the best. All the trouble of the world is momentarily set aside while we're collectively marveling at the pretty lights and nature together. This is how it's supposed to be. Life, I mean. Shared joy and all. 🙂

Me liking every post I see about the Northern Lights rn

A man holding up a weathered, gold-edged picture frame. Inside the frame, there is an image of a silhouetted treeline beneath a vibrant red and green aurora in the night sky.

My feed right now

Y'all this is the best. I'm in rural Oklahoma and there's people stopped on a lot of the exit ramps along the highway watching the aurora. Many have likely never seen it before. One old southern dude stopped beside me asking if I see the "big orange lights" too. We're all just little curious humans.

It looks like the CME's from the two previous X-class flares Sunday and Monday combined into one wave RIGHT on top of us! The CME from today's X5.1 looks to miss us tomorrow slightly ahead of our orbit.
In short, WE LUCKED OUT SO GOOD!!!!!

A bland view of Saturn, but with bright orange glows at both poles; these are the planet's aurorae seen in UV light.

Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too!

This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?

Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes

The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

INCREDIBLE That we got such a brilliant show in Memphis, TN tonight! Even through city lights and looking directly at lights, our East Memphis camera caught some brilliant red waves between 8-10pm tonight!

GULF COAST AURORA?!?!?!

Seems like the #Aurora is already visible over a large chunk of the CONUS tonight thanks to the #CME's over the last few days from a couple of significant X-class solar flares.

My goodness...

I am not sure I've ever said "oh my god" so many times in a five minute span.

Unreal aurora now outside of Champaign, IL!

Info from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: G4 Storm levels have been reached!
My favorite part of this graphic is the credit line "image courtesy of a NOAA/SWPC spouse"
I also texted my husband to go get a picture but he was working lol

More aurora borealis, pink colors reflecting off a lake

reflecting off the lake?!

From downtown Memphis, pic by Chief Meteorologist Trevor Birchett

Android as a great feature called Expert Raw... takes amazing photos of stars/night skies if you have a tripod or can prop the phone